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What are the IHR? The International Health Regulations (IHR) represent an agreement between 196 countries, including all WHO Member States, to work together for global health security. Under the IHR, all countries must report events of international public health importance.

We share a responsibility to protect our world from outbreaks of infectious diseases and other health threats. The goal of the IHR is to stop events in their tracks before they become international emergencies.

Global disease detection and emergency response has always been a core public health activity for CDC, ensuring the public health security of Americans and others around the world. Over the past year, the agency continued to formalize this by central...

The framework of the newly revised International Health Regulations is a key driver in the effort to strengthen global public health security. Unanimously agreed upon by the World Health Assembly on May 23, 2005, the regulations are the result of exp...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis.. Centers for Law and the Public’s Health.. National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.. National Tuberculosis Controllers Association.. Public Health Law Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)).

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October 1, 2009

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – through its Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) and its Public Health Law Program (PHLP) – has identified legal preparedness as a critical component in the control of many public heal...

For more than 60 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease, injury and disability. Since 1980, CDC, through the...

Understanding which emerging infectious diseases are of international public health concern is vital. The International Health Regulations include a decision instrument to help countries determine which public health events are of international conce...